Welcome to this, the 17th and final edition of the Generation 2004 Newsletter for 2022. We wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year with a message from our chair. Generation 2004 is now 10 years old and we are happy with the most recent election results. We share a potential quick fix for those with internal-competition language issues and we look at the additional and unreported costs related to the renewal of the laissez-passer. Our Harassment Watch Network colleagues have a new publication to coincide with the new anti-harassment framework and we provide an update on DG GROW. As ever, we proposed an end-of-year checklist for you and an invitation to our event on drafting your self-evaluation. In other news, our contract agent colleague has won his case against the Commission, well done! The Commission was wrong to apply the poast-2014 pension accrual and retirement age on him (‘Picard case’). HR has now shared draft general guidelines to the Working Time and Hybrid Working (WTHW) decision.
Enjoy the reading and get in touch if you believe we can help!
*Update 19.02.2025: ‘By default, all [internal] competitions will be cross-category.’ (
Our institution as well as our working and private lives have, in the recent past, undergone substantial change. So much so that the word reorganisation stopped soliciting any surprise. We are used to it and it happens everywhere and at reasonably regular intervals, such as before the arrival of a new Commission or Cabinets: the outgoing one might look to perhaps reshuffle things in order to 
This is a very special moment for Generation 2004: we are celebrating not only our 
Generation 2004 has been contacted by many colleagues serving outside the territory of the European Union regarding the issue of renewing their service passport (‘
*Update 09.10.2025 we see that the internal competitions to allow flexibility in terms of which language is used as the first language (see p.6 of the 
*Update 20.11.2024 the question of 
Thank you for placing your trust in us! This has been a remarkable election: it has finished on time, meeting the original deadline without any need for an extension and it’s the first time that a woman-led couple has been the most elected in any Luxembourg election in living memory! Luxembourg, you are awesome! The result is even more meaningful in this, a very special year: we are celebrating our 10-year anniversary. 
We encourage you to rest and to recharge your batteries during the end-of-year days: this is 